Protests throughout the world continue to rage a week after they began over a crudely-produced video that mocks Islam. The internet video, produced in the United States, led to anti-American demonstrations in dozens of countries. As many as 17 people have died in the violence. American warships stood by off Libya after the US ambassador there was killed in a possibly-related attack. The embassies, consulates, and commercial interests of other western nations have been attacked during the protests. -- Lane Turner (30 photos total)

Afghan protesters set fire to a US flag as they shout slogans during a demonstration in Kabul on September 16, 2012. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)

Yemeni protesters try to break through the US embassy in Sanaa during a protest over a film mocking Islam on September 13, 2012. Yemeni forces managed to drive out angry protesters who stormed the embassy in the Yemeni capital with police firing warning shots to disperse thousands of people as they approached the main gate of the mission. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images) #

Islamic party activists pray during a protest against an internet film mocking Islam in Dhaka on September 14, 2012. About 10,000 protesters in Bangladesh burned American and Israeli flags. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images) #

Pakistani soldiers hold back protesters shouting anti-US slogans as they attempt to reach the US embassy during a demonstration in Islamabad on September 14, 2012. Hundreds of Pakistani Islamists rallied to denounce the video and call on the government to expel the US ambassador and other US diplomats from Pakistan. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images) #

Smoke billows from the US embassy in Khartoum during a protest against an amateur video mocking Islam on September 14, 2012. Two protesters were killed as security forces used tear gas against thousands of demonstrators after the British and German embassies were stormed earlier. (AFP/Getty Images) #

Pakistani Sunni Muslim protesters torch a US flag and an effigy of Barack Obama during a protest rally against an anti-Islam video in Karachi on September 16, 2012. At least three people were injured. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images) #

A protester hurls a rock during a protest against a low-budget film insulting to Muslims outside the US embassy in Jakarta on September 17, 2012 in the world's most populous Muslim nation. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images) #

Police detain a member of Azerbaijan Islamic Party during a protest against a video that mocks the Prophet Muhammad outside the US Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan on September 17, 2012. (Aziz Karimov/Associated Press) #

Supporters of Islamic political movement Hizb ut-Tahrir protest outside the US Embassy in London against the US-made anti-Muslim video mocking the Prophet Mohammad on September 16, 2012. (Sang Tan/Associated Press) #

A protester hits a caricature of Florida pastor Terry Jones with her shoe during a protest against a video they consider blasphemous to Islam near the US consulate in Chennai, India on September 15, 2012. (Babu/Reuters) #

Islamists wave Syrian Opposition flags to express solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters as they burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag to protest against a video they consider blasphemous to Islam in Tripoli, Lebanon on September 16, 2012. (Omar Ibrahim/Reuters) #

A man waves an Indonesian flag as protesters are engulfed in tear gas during a protest against the video that ridicules Islam outside the US embassy in Jakarta on September 17, 2012. (Dita Alangkara/Associated Press) #

Sinai Bedouin protest as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad in the central Sinai oasis of Wadi Feran, Egypt on September 14, 2012. (Mohammed Sabry/Associated Press) #